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This study investigates the effectiveness of the Mastery Approach in enhancing students’ ability to develop ideas in Tamil debate essays, using the PEELER technique as a structured paragraph-writing tool. Conducted with 15 Form Five students from a secondary school in Penang. Thus, main objective this study is Identifying the effects of Mastery Approach on Writing Tamil Language Debate Essays before and after intervention. Pre-test and post-test essay scripts were evaluated using the SPM Tamil Language Marking Scheme issued by the Malaysian Examinations Syndicate. Over an eight-week intervention, mean scores improved from 56.40 (SD = 7.90) to 67.07 (SD = 9.04), with noticeable gains across median, mode, and score range. The findings suggest that the integration of the Mastery Approach with the PEELER technique provides a clear, systematic pathway for improving content development in debate essays. This has implications for Tamil language pedagogy and supports the adoption of mastery-based writing strategies in secondary schools.
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